The Dickinson press., 1887-09-03
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.
DAKOTA NEWS.

Brookings is to build a $500
school house.
Dakota employs more school teach
ers than do thirteen of the states.
The Dakota territorial farmers
alliance claims Il membership of near
ly 10000.
a young Bohemian named Uensch
ka who lived at Tabor recently die,
from lockjaw.
Solomon Pitcher was accidentl,
shot and killed by Jacob Haas neaI
Columbia while hunting chickens.
After a hot contest the commits
slone:s decided to hold an election OF
September 10, for the division O,
Lawrence county.
The latest addition to Dell Rapids
industries is the tow mill which viii
shortly be erected and operated bv q
company with $4,000 capital.
S. G. Harris, a former employe OF
the Grand Forks Herald, will soon
commence the publication of a TEN.
perance paper at Milbank, to be
called Harris PrOhibitionist.
ID. W. Sprague, member of the late
legislature, has accepted a position in
the faculty of the Madison normal
school. Mr.. Sprague will have charge
OF the commercial department.
On Sunday Sheriff Hanson, of Day
county,. arrested RELY Vanderdorf,
charged with horse stealing. Sheriff
ID. II. Corcoran came with a reuuisi.
tion and took him to Pierce county.
Wis, where the crime is said to have
been committed.
Matthias Cary, aged about 60 years.
a farmer living six miles east of De
Smet, went to Preston Saturday,
bought a revolver, went into the
country and shot himself dead. No
cause is known for the act,
The building Of the Northern Pa.
cific spur from Grand Forks to Penn
bina is progressing rapidly. Grading
is almost completed, and track-laying
is being pushed forward at tile rate
of two and one-half miles per day.
DEVILS Lake has now genuine sea
monster, appearing to be about eight.
cen feet long, and moving through the
water us fast as a horse can trot.
This is the alleged reason WHY no In.
dians have ever been seen on the
waters of the lake.
AS Mrs. August Schultz, residing
two miles west Of Bristol in Day
county, was entering a cattle corral
near her home she was set upon by a
young bull and gored in the side and
abdomen in such a manner as to rem.
der her recovery impossible.
AT Il meeting of the officers of the
Missouri River & Duluth railroad and
the Forest City & Watertown road at
Roscoe it was decided to hold a Joint
meeting of the stockholders of the
two road September 18th to arrange
for a union of the two roads.
The territorial fair at Mitchell has
provided five hundred stock stalls.
Free machine power furnished, flow
ing water brought to the ground and
a side track laid to bring exhibits di.
rect. $3.50 will be given for the best
county exhibit.
Fred Carruth, the funny man of
the Dakota Bell, has not taken a posi-.
on the New York Tribune, as has
been stated. He has not accepted a
position with any paper, although he
has many t~lattering offers, but will
contribute to several periodicals for
the present.
Col. Z. NJ. Brown reports the field
work of the Fort Rice reservation
completed. He finds the good land
about all taken by the old settlers
The reservation covers five townships
There is about eighty.fve miles OF
river in the reservation.
General Manager Marvel. of the
Manitoba railway. says that rich anG
extensive deposits of anthracite coaI
have been found fifty miles north OF
the Devils Lake extension. not fal
from the Montana line. Gradual,
but surely the wonders of Dakota
continue to appear.
Mrs. j. G. Crosby, of New York
while cossing the N. p. bridge al
bismarck stepped to the ear plat
form to get a good view of the river,
and dropped her pocket-book contain.
ing $50 in money. jewelry and letters,
into the water. 1t is highly probable
that pocket.book will not be seen
again soon.
A good illustration of the Dakota
push is shown in the ease of Mrs.
walsh, OF Grand Forks, wife of Hon.
geo. II. Walsh, the we'll known poll.
tician. This lady, in her husbands
absence from home this S has
run the farm. hired all the help. put
III anu harvested 500 acres of grain of
pense of the work. including seed. etc.
from the proceeds of the sale of chic.
kens, eggs, butter and vegetables
from the farm.
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